Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Monday 22 December 2003 16:12, Ville Herva wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:35:54AM -0800, you [Mike Fedyk] wrote:
>> > I don't know if there is a kernel memory leak, since all user
>> > level processes should be killed at that point, right?
>> > Unfortunately I didn't have time to dig deeper, as the box is in
>> > (sort of) production.
>>
>> Maybe, it depends on your init scripts.  Does your distribution do
>> a kill -9 of all processes before turning off swap?
>
>(It's a 7.0 Red Hat).
>
>It does
>   runcmd "Sending all processes the KILL signal..."  /sbin/killall5
> -9 before
>   [ -n "$SWAPS" ] && runcmd "Turning off swap: " swapoff $SWAPS
>in /etc/rc6.d/S01reboot and I've seen the "Sending all processes the
> KILL signal..." message appear before the memory freeing loop
> starts rolling.

If its a pristine rh7.0 install, that version of bind has a notorious 
rootkit hole.  So I wonder if the machine has been kitted by some 
script kiddie whose good at covering his tracks but not the rest of 
the housekeeping.  Do a google search for "chkrootkit", and install 
it to get a better view of that possibility.

An OS upgrade does seem to be in order, lots has happened since 7.0.  
7.3 with an updated kernel is my firewall, uptime is about 95 days 
now.  It was shut down while I was out of state for a couple of 
months last fall.  RH8.0 on this machine, with the real KDE-3.1.1a, 
but since RH is gonna force a switch, debian may be the next thing 
installed here.  Or maybe Mepis since he's only 50 miles up the 
interstate from me. :)


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